Home
Resource
The implementation of a palliative care screening tool to identify patients in need and to increase access to palliative care
PDF
PDF format is widely accepted and good for printing.
Plug-in required
PDF-1(3.66 MB)
Citation & Export
View Usage Statistics
Staff View

Citation & Export
Hide

Simple citation

Riccobono, Henrieta. The implementation of a palliative care screening tool to identify patients in need and to increase access to palliative care. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-7k5p-ee65

Export

Click here for information about Citation Management Tools at Rutgers.

Statistics
Hide

Description

TitleThe implementation of a palliative care screening tool to identify patients in need and to increase access to palliative care
NameRiccobono, Henrieta (author); Chao, Ying-Yu (chair); Rutgers University; School of Nursing - RBHS
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-05 (degree)
SubjectAdult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Palliative care, Palliative treatment
Extent1 online resource (66 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionBackground: Palliative care remains underused in management of end stage illness. The goal of this study was to identify patients with unmet palliative care needs and increase palliative care consultations for patients with end-stage illnesses through the implementation of a screening tool.

Method: The study was a quality improvement project, using a single-site retrospective and prospective chart review to determine whether the use of a palliative care screening tool would increase referrals for palliative care at 145-bed community hospital. The total sample consisted of 124 medical charts. Sixty-two charts were reviewed before and 62 charts after the implementation of the screening tool. Percentage change was used to calculate pre-intervention and post-intervention consultation rates and SPSS software was used for descriptive analysis of sample demographics and length of stay analysis.

Results: There was a 40% increase in palliative care consultation rates after the implementation of a palliative care screening tool. Patients who received palliative care consult had a significantly lower length of stay in the hospital (p value=0.000). Nineteen patients who did not receive palliative care consult had an average length of stay of 10.58 days and 43 patients who received palliative care consult had an average length of stay of 5.56 days.

Conclusions/Implications: The use of palliative care screening tool hospital-wide can help clinicians to identify patients in need of palliative care in a standard and objective manner to foster early palliative care consultation, which can potentially improve financial and non-financial aspects of a patient’s care.
NoteDNP
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-7k5p-ee65
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Nursing (RBHS) DNP Projects
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
Version 8.5.5
Rutgers University Libraries - Copyright ©2024